park2026:
Criminalizing Ecocide: Will Corporations Change?
Introduction
As climate change accelerates and ecosystems face unprecedented destruction, existing legal frameworks have proven inadequate to prevent or meaningfully deter large-scale environmental harm. Corporations, especially transnational corporations operating across jurisdictions, play a central role in driving deforestation, pollution, biodiversity loss, and greenhouse gas emissions, often...(more)
Wangu Gatonye:
I.
Introduction
“Ecocide” was coined in the 1970s through a proposal by Professor Arthur W. Galston, but has only recently gained popularity in legal circles.1
The proposed definition is: “[U]nlawful or wanton acts committed with knowledge that there is a substantial likelihood of severe and either widespread or long-term damage to the environment being caused by those acts.”2
The work that the diverse Independent...(more)
Talia Boyadjian:
Why the
IEPs
Draft Definition of Ecocide Cannot Work as a Core Crime
The concept of
ecocide
has circulated long before current efforts to amend the
Rome Statute,
with domestic and international circles debating it as a proposed legal tool to address human-caused extreme environmental destruction.1
Early formulations data back to the Vietnam War in response to large-scale wartime...(more)
U.S. Sanctions issue
How to Address the Legality of EO 13928 and the Never Ending Unilateral Punitive Measures: A View From Across the Atlantic by Konstantinos D. Magliveras...anniversary issue
Two Key Reforms: Break Up the ICC into Regional Chambers and Allow the ICC to Impose Monetary Fines on Recalcitrant Contracting Parties The predicaments which the ICC...withdrawal issue
Do African ICC Parties Wish to Withdraw from the ICC? Let Them Leave! The purported withdrawal of a small number of African states...gaza issue
Alma, the ICC is as much subordinate to states as is the ICJ (in theory both could be abolished if contracting states so wish) but I don't think that the ICC would ever consider it as a problem in...gaza issue
Alma, You are of course right in what you are saying. The difficulties are obvious but I think that in an academic discussion one has to explore different arguments. If we are to agree that the ICC...gaza issue
Perhaps I need to clarify this argument. What I mean is that the ICC was set up to try individuals who have been accused of committing crimes coming within the Court's jurisdiction. So, the primary...gaza issue
I think that it is more than a mere legal technicality but surely the same standards that are required for accepting statehood, according to the traditional teachings of PIL, are not required in the...gaza issue
I am very glad that this particular topic was chosen because I have already dealt with it in two previous articles of mine: K. Magliveras, “Some Thoughts on a Possible...